Dead? Nah. On vacation? Maybe, IDK. Making sure that his website is functioning properly and doesn't have pornographic content on it that is accessible to minors? No.

Now, IK that most of the admins and Overlords here (unlike me) have real lives. They've got jobs, they've got families, they got hobbies that don't involve prehistoric websites like this one, etc., etc., and I'm not blaming any of them for that. Unfortunately, as far as those handful of admins—including HullBreach himself—who can fix all of the things that are broken here on Paint go (y'all know who I'm talking about), it presents a SERIOUS problem for this website to not have them doing so.
(And ultimately, it is HullBreach who is to blame for this.)


Special characters in blog titles (left) and in profile comments (right), from back when you could actually do that here on Paint.

First of all, special characters have been broken on this website since 2022, ever since Hull (for whatever reason) decided to migrate Paint's server. I am NOT a tech nerd, so IDK (or care TBH) why he did it or whether or not it made sense to do it, but regardless, it screwed up all sorts of things all over this website.

Yesterday, Mexican_man had suggested adding a cheese emoji to Paint, after coryhadastory had come up with the idea, and I think that it's a good one. Paint has all sorts of cool special emojis, like these:



There are way more than just those, and IDK them all TBH, but regardless, Paint has them, and they are cool.

Additionally, you can bypass the special characters bug to do a thumbs up or down emoji by using the image BBcode to post the thumbs up or down icons used for liking and disliking blogs, like so:



The images used for this are /images/thumb_up.png and /images/thumb_down.png BTW, but there's still that annoying question: why can't I just use 👍, 👎, and 🧀 in blog titles, blog comments, profile comments, and in DMs like I could back in 2019?
(I thought the point in working on the website was to make things work better, not to break things that were already working just fine?)


An example of what happened to blog and profile comments that had special characters in them. The same happened to literally every special character that had been entered anywhere on the website prior to the server migration back in 2022, even in places where they can still be entered.

Of course, certain things have been fixed here on Paint. Friend requests are working again now, although they were also working just fine back in 2019. Group reinvites seem to be FINALLY working now, so IG I should be celebrating that? IDK, but there's obviously still a TON of work that needs to be done here on Paint, and NOBODY here is actually doing it!


What the popular groups list on the groups page looked like after Hull's server migration (left), and what it now looks like thanks to me fixing the special characters in the group titles using my groupmin powers (right). I had to do this to every single blog of mine that contained special characters too, but DMs, blog titles, blog comments, and profile comments cannot be fixed this way, since the server migration made it impossible to enter special characters in those.

Of course, a number of my friends here have suggested to me that the only way that any of these things are ever going to get fixed here is if I learn HTML, PHP, and MySQL and start fixing them myself, and I plan on doing so eventually. But my question is this: this is HullBreach's website, NOT mine, so why isn't he fixing these things himself? Or at least entrusting the job to someone else who is already both willing and able to do so?
(If he had done either of those things, I wouldn't be writing this blog RN.)

Of course, from a legal perspective, there is a far more serious issue on this website: pornographic images that were uploaded here almost a year ago that are still on this website for some reason.

Now, I only know of 5 such images that were reported to me by a community member here, but the real problem here is that I can't delete these images even with my photomin powers, making it HullBreach's responsibility to get rid of them somehow. Thankfully, they at least can't be used as figure tags here either, but they can be accessed by typing in their URL, whereas other image uploads from former Paint members, like, say, this old meme that Luisjo96 made of me years ago, can't be.
(Which sucks BTW. Why do cool things like that meme just disappear, yet pornography is allowed to just sit around until some unlucky kid here happens to stumble upon it?)

3 other issues with image uploads that need to be fixed are:

1. The auditing system for it, since there is currently a way of bypassing the admin audit system when deleting image uploads, which (if abused by a photomin) would essentially render the whole auditing system for photomins deleting of images completely useless.



2. The (lack of a) photomin button for us photomins. As can be seen in the above screenshot, the “Photo Uploads” button is visible for Overlords, yet for some reason us photomins don't have this button available to us on the homepage, forcing us to enter the URL manually or use a link to the page in order to access it.

3. A search feature for image uploads. Under the current system, it is incredibly difficult for us photomins to look for a specific image upload even if we have the exact figure number for it. A simple search feature for the photomin page would go a long way towards making it less of a PITN, and a search feature for the regular image uploads page would be helpful to non-admin community members as well.
(This was Amjam's idea, BTW.)


According to HullBreach, what is described here “[Is] not an automated warning system. It’s policy for how admins should warn before banning”. According to common sense, it is describing an automated warning system that was never actually finished.

There's also the lack of an age rating system for image uploads, which (if actually implemented) could also help protect underage community members from being exposed to inappropriate content, while simultaneously providing non-puritanical photomins like myself another option for dealing with image uploads here that may bother some community members (such as puritanical photomins) but don't actually violate Paint's terms of membership. There's also Hull's idea of adding content warnings to blogs, which could obviously be applied to image uploads here as well. There's no shortage of good ideas for improving this website, just a shortage of people to actually implement these ideas or even fix things that have been broken on this website for years.

I don't know or care who fixes all of these things BTW, but SOMEBODY better start doing it, and soon. I’m sharing all this because I’m fed up. I’m fed up with the way this place has fallen. I’m fed up with all the crap that continues to be allowed to happen. I’M FED UP WITH THE WEBSITE THAT SAVED MY LIFE 6 YEARS AGO BECOMING A BUGGY PORN WEBSITE FOR MINORS.

But of course, all of this is gonna fall on deaf ears and be completely ignored because “Drac=bad lol!” Literally wouldn’t even be surprised if even after I air all this out, nothing changes and we forget about it in a week. I’ll be disappointed, but not surprised in the slightest.
(And I totally didn't copy those last 2 paragraphs there from somebody else's crappy blog just to make a point here, lol!)

THEIR JUDGING EYES WATCHING ME
IT'S ALL I'VE EVER KNOWN
WHEN I TRY TO OPEN UP MY HEART
I AM RIDICULED AND TORN APART
YOUR DAMN JOKES I'LL NEVER GET TO HEAR
BEHIND MY BACK AT MY EXPENSE
THERE'S SOMETHING INSIDE ME
AND I KNOW IT'S GOOD, I'M NOT EVIL
JUST MISUNDERSTOOD
DO YOU SEE ME NOW?
DO YOU HEAR ME NOW?
YOU WILL KNOW MY NAME!
DO YOU SEE ME NOW?
DO YOU FEAR ME NOW?
YOU WILL KNOW MY NAME!

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The lyrics at the end of this blog are from the song “You Will Know My Name”, by Arch Enemy.